Chapter 213: The Emperor

Ambassador Yang's investigation failed miserably......

Of course, he snatched back Lai Duxian's body.

It must be a corpse!

There were more than a dozen shotguns on his body, not to mention being beaten into a sieve, and he was also choked on the spot.

Poor Lai Duxian has been honest all his life, and he even has to grow his own vegetables to make a living, but in the end he sacrificed heroically for the Ming Dynasty, anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang will give him a posthumous gift, and his children and grandchildren will be able to bear the signboard of Zhongliang in the future, and he can be regarded as a well-deserved death at an age.

But his death turned the otherwise peaceful situation for the worse.

"And what can I do?"

Yang Feng said irresponsibly.

This incident quickly caused a commotion in various parts of Shanxi......

In fact, the common people are very unhappy.

They were originally looking forward to following the river god and Ambassador Yang, wanting to stand on their own feet from the Ming Dynasty, it doesn't matter what signboard it is, whether it is the Great Song Dynasty or anything else, it is Ambassador Yang's Great Xia.

Doesn't matter.

As long as you can break away from the Ming Dynasty, you will start to free grain in the field, engage in industry and commerce, and so on.

After all, as long as it is still in the Ming system, then these will be very troublesome, and you can only do it casually by yourself as a king, but now it has to be changed to negotiation, so once you return to the Ming Dynasty, will the court settle accounts and find these troubles for the people? No matter what was promised in the court negotiations, as long as the management of local officials was restored in the end, it would be difficult to avoid settling accounts after the autumn, but now that the river god and Yang Feng have all accepted the negotiations, and the imperial grandson has also shown openness and generosity, so it can't be attacked. Now that this kind of thing has happened again, of course it will take the opportunity to make trouble, and all of a sudden rumors have surged from all over Shanxi, saying that the imperial court is going to send troops to encircle and suppress Shanxi.

Therefore, the heads of several capitals in Zezhou immediately gathered to make a decision, and they quickly organized thousands of young and strong coalition troops to blockade Tianjing Pass.

During this period, several heads were opposed.

After all, at this time, several capital heads have been obtained by the village sages.

But......

Hacked to death.

This is nothing uncommon in anarchy.

So the remaining few village sages are also honest.

In fact, this situation was beyond Yang Feng's expectations, he did it on purpose, since those northern Wenchen wanted to unload the mill and kill the donkey, then he connived at the Diao people to make trouble and let these guys sober up.

Unloading the mill and killing the donkey?

Do you think donkeys don't know how to shoe?

However, the development of the situation now does not seem to be just a joke.

At the end of the day, the times are different.

The content of this folk is extremely high, it seems that there are few obedient people, and the organization of the people is also beyond his imagination, and it can almost be said that someone raised his arms and immediately completed the organization in an orderly manner, and even quickly formed a coalition through the meeting......

Sure enough, this generation that has experienced the turbulent times of the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood is different!

Just like those salt merchants and the guys who opened the shop back then, they could understand tactical cooperation.

Pull out a village at random, and at this time it is really possible to form a simple army.

It's a lot like a certain era!

"Ambassador, with your bravery, it seems a little incomprehensible that you are being hindered by a hundred and ten people."

Xie Cheng said.

He is the commander of Shanxi in the past, he knows Shanxi better than Yang Feng, and he also knows that it is definitely not easy to end up if he really wants to make a big fuss, he originally felt that Yang Feng was there, and those Diao people would give face no matter what, but I didn't expect Yang Feng's face to be easy to make!

"Yongping Hou, what do you want me to do? Whether they are the people of the Ming Dynasty or the people of the Great Song Dynasty, they are all the people of my friends of the Great Xia Kingdom, do you want me to kill the people of the friends of the Great Xia Kingdom? In fact, what they said is not wrong, now the relationship between the two sides is undecided, no matter what happens, at least for now, Daming should not interfere. What's more, Zhao Zhizhou kept saying that after Shanxi returned to Ming, he wanted to settle accounts with others, so he said so, can people still choose Daming? ”

Yang Feng said.

Of course, Zhao Zhizhou also returned.

He was rescued by Wang Qianhu, but he was not seriously injured, but he was lame.

Now he is crying about the lawlessness of the people, advocating that the imperial court should make a decision and send troops into Shanxi to forcibly confiscate weapons, even if they do not collect cold weapons, they must also confiscate firearms.

Moreover, those civil officials were also indignant and demanded a solution by force.

"In fact, the matter is very easy to solve, as long as Your Majesty announces to the world, no matter whether the people of Shanxi return to the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, all the previous ones will not be blamed, and the river god promised to free grain in the field, and the military households will divide the land, and these will all be honored. With such a holy decree, the people of Shanxi are naturally relieved, as for their firearms, of course, there is no need to confiscate them.

So they were relieved. ”

Yang Feng said.

Xie Cheng looked at the imperial grandson.

He wasn't sure if this was what Yang Feng thought or if he had the acquiescence of the imperial grandson.

"It's just that, I'm afraid the imperial court won't be able to ban it in Shanxi in the future."

The imperial grandson said with some hesitation.

Xie Cheng immediately understood that this was what Yang Feng wanted to do by himself.

"The imperial grandson Takami.

Now it is not whether His Majesty has announced to the world that the imperial grandson has given them a chance to choose again, if they are truly grateful for the emperor's grace, how can they worry about this? Will the imperial grandson be concerned with them about the past?

In the final analysis, it's still these people who are ambitious.

If the imperial court is subservient at this time, how will it manage the place in the future?

At this time, even if the armies from all walks of life do not press up and invade Shanxi, at least they have to arrest the Diao people who killed the people who came to Duxian and teach these Diao people a lesson, not to mention that if they return to the Ming Dynasty, they must abide by the Ming law after all, and the Ming law allows the people to hold bows and crossbows and swords, but they may have firearms, and firearms must be confiscated everywhere. ”

Xie Cheng said.

"Then what if they don't let go of the patio gate and stop you from arresting people?"

Yang Feng said.

"Then open the patio gate.

It's just a few thousand rabble, even if the relevant passes are in hand, can they still stop my army?

It just so happens that the Shenji Battalion is here, and it will also test the actual combat of the Shenji Battalion. ”

Xie Cheng said.

"It's an opportunity."

The imperial grandson immediately said.

So......

After all, the imperial grandson must stand in the perspective of imperial power.

He can carry out economic reforms and accept new ideas, but the fundamental principles of imperial power will not change, the emperor will not allow the people to oppose the imperial power, the emperor must be unconditionally obeyed by the people, and it is a great rebellion for the people to kill officials.

Yang Feng looked at the imperial grandson with some emotion.

The imperial grandson has also grown up, and he is no longer the easy-to-manipulate teenager of the past.

It's the real emperor.

In that case, let them be!

In the final analysis, it is unrealistic to expect such a matter to be resolved peacefully.

Eventually, we have to fight.

In the final analysis, this time the people of Shanxi are purely pie-in-the-sky good things, since this makes them understand that there is really no pie-in-the-sky good thing, and if you want to get the right, you have to fight for it yourself.

If the people of Shanxi win, then defend their rights, and if the court wins, force them to accept the will of the court, just control the rhythm, and a small-scale conflict is acceptable, as long as it does not develop into a real war. However, it is unlikely that there will really be a fight, after all, Annan is still fighting at this time, and the 300,000 troops on the side of the King of Chu are not counting the people who transported them. Although he is making good progress and is said to be already marching towards Hanoi, there are still troubles to be solved in places like Annam, and Lao Zhu actually does not have enough troops to deal with another province with a population of two million.

In fact, it was not only Annan, but Gu Cheng was still in Guizhou at this time to conquer Shuixi.

The latter refused to pay taxes.

The Ming Dynasty Tusi all had to pay taxes, but it was a tax system, and the total number was handed over by the Tusi, and there were fixed tributes directly to the emperor, but the guards did not pay taxes, but they had the same fixed tribute, and the Tusi paid taxes, as for the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Tusi did not pay taxes just because the court did not have the ability to go to them to collect them.

After all, the gentry don't pay, and they can't expect the toasts to be more honest than the gentry.

But according to the law, it must be paid.

In fact, if the imperial court really threatened it, they would also be honest, for example, when fighting Yang Yinglong, in the face of the sudden influx of troops, the Shuixi family handed it over honestly, since he, the number one toast, must have handed it over, and the other toasts must have also handed it over, but when the army finished fighting and withdrew, he didn't hand it over again.

In the later period of Guangxi, a province could not afford to raise the Jingjiang Palace, so that it needed the financial transfer of Huguang and Guangdong every year.

As for not paying it now, it will be directly expropriated by force.

"I have to explain first that it is okay to just force the arrest through the pass, but the troops from other directions must not cross the border, otherwise it will not end well."

Yang Feng finally reminded him.

"Don't worry, the ambassador is just going to arrest."

Xie Cheng said.

Of course, he understands the meaning of a bad ending.

It's the river god who appears again!

This does need to be avoided.

If Yang Feng really wants to end, then the court will definitely lose, after all, this is not his own person, then there are hundreds of thousands of simple young people behind him, and Shanxi is really the opposite at that time.

However, Xie Ben himself doesn't want to expand, he knows the situation in Shanxi very well, he knows the consequences of expansion, and this incident itself is just an accident, and he doesn't understand why such a trivial matter has to be taken care of, isn't it good to let those people kill each other? This was proposed by Lai Gong, and it was also proposed by Lai Gong to find Yang Feng, because of the previous series of conspiracies, Lai Gong was very trusted by the imperial grandson, so after he proposed it, the imperial grandson immediately complied.

Now that he himself has been killed, it can be regarded as self-inflicted.

Poor Yongping Marquis didn't understand that this was just a dedication to the emperor to repay the favor, what he wanted was to intensify the contradictions, and then use the heads of the people to show loyalty to the emperor, so as to make up for the bad impression left by his previous behavior in the emperor's heart.

It's just that......

Something just happened.

In this way, the Daming Shenji Battalion began a real military operation for the first time......

"What do you care about those people?"

Princess Lu said dissatisfiedly.

She is still worshipping the Buddha in Luoyang, there are too many temples in Luoyang, how can she have to pay tribute for half a year.

"Nonsense, don't I do so much to give the people the right to make their own choices? Now how can you stop at the door, not only to manage, but also to the end. ”

Yang Feng said.

Indeed, he had to lose the magic machine.

If the Shenji Battalion opens the Tianjing Pass, it means that the imperial court can still easily suppress the Diao people, then it will be difficult for Zhu Yuanzhang to give in. If the people of Shanxi can keep the Tianjing Pass, let him know that if he really pays the cost, then he can seriously consider the people's requirements. If the Shenji Battalion can take Tianjing Pass lightly, it means that the militia is a rabble after all, and he can just send it away, and he doesn't need to give too much.

At the end of the day, rights have to be fought for.

If you want the emperor to meet your own requirements, you have to have the strength to make him really pay attention to his requirements.

What's more, if the Shenji Battalion easily opens the Tianjing Pass, then the people who planned this matter will be satisfied, the Shenji Battalion will arrest those Diao people, and then cut off their heads, and the emperor will also feel the loyalty of the northern civil servants or the northern gentry from the heads of those people.

Look at the fact that in order to be able to defend Shanxi for His Majesty the Emperor, not only the gentry are fighting with the Diao people, but even officials of this level who come to Duxian can sacrifice their lives to repay the emperor's kindness, we are all so loyal, Your Majesty the Emperor, you have forgotten our little cleverness before, although we did play some small tricks, but our essence is still pure, and our loyalty to you has always been consistent.

Bah!

Ambassador Yang will not let them get their wish.

"I'm afraid the militia can't do it, even if the people of Zezhou are fierce, they can't compare with the Shenji Battalion after all."

Princess Lu immediately changed her position and said.

"What do you mean?"

Yang Feng said.

"Let Ning Shanwei's military households replace them, this time the military households actually want to divide the land, after all, even if the civilian households are free of grain, they will receive one-twentieth more grain a year, but the military households can earn three or four percent more a year. Ning Shanwei's military households selected a thousand elites and blended into the young and strong people of Tianjing Pass.

With them, it's enough to hold on. ”

Princess Lu said.

Sure enough, this woman is bad!

"But how do I mobilize them? Although they have been sitting and watching, if they really want to participate, it is equivalent to rebellion, and they are still loyal to your father-in-law. ”

Yang Feng said.

Of course he thought about it.

The problem is that although the military households want to divide the land, they are also loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang, they can sit back and watch the people make trouble, but it is inevitably a bit difficult to let them participate, or even fight with the same Ming army. Of course, it's not that it can't be done, after all, in a few years, the military households in the north and south will already be able to kill a river of blood on the battlefield, but the key to this kind of thing is to have a leader.

"This is easy, I have a house slave under me, my brother is in Ningshanwei, you take him to his brother and then agitate the military household, you are good at this."

Princess Lu said.

"As the daughter-in-law of the Zhu family, is it appropriate to dismantle the Zhu family platform like this?"

Yang Feng said.

"Ha, I'm in my twenties, and I'm buried in the grave of their Zhu family like this, I have to be this surviving person for them for the rest of my life, their Zhu family owes me, so can't I have some fun from their Zhu family?"

Princess Lu said.

"I think you'd rather have some fun with me, right?"

Yang Feng said.

"Then why don't you hurry up?"

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(End of chapter)